News Release NetScreen Technologies Deploys Phormion Sales Tool Lincroft, New Jersey, October 3, 2001 - Phormion Sales Tools (www.phormion.com), an exclusive developer of ROI/TCO sales tools for professional sales and marketing organizations, announced today that NetScreen Technologies, Inc. (www.netscreen.com), has deployed a quantitative, web-based sales and marketing tool developed by Phormion for use by its sales organization and channel partners. "The Phormion package provides a concise, educational model that demonstrates our cost advantages vs. our competitors," said David Flynn, NetScreen vice president of marketing. "We chose to work with Phormion because of their impressive client list and extensive experience in the development of quantitative sales tools." NetScreen develops and sells the industry's highest performance firewall/ VPN solutions. The company's ASIC-based hardware systems and appliances enable near wire-speed packet processing, ensuring full connection bandwidth by reducing the performance bottlenecks associated with other legacy security products. "Developing and communicating a cost-advantage message concisely and effectively in a sales environment is Phormion's principal strength, and we're pleased that the tool we've developed for NetScreen is proving successful in the Field," added Jeff Hill, Phormion's EVP of Sales and Marketing." The sales tool developed by Phormion for NetScreen is available for password-restricted, private demonstrations by contacting Phormion at 908-876-8700, or by visiting www.phormion.com. About Phormion Sales Tools Phormion Sales Tools researches, designs, and develops interactive sales and marketing tools that use Return-On-Investment (ROI), Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and other financial analyses to help high tech sales organizations quantify and explain their value propositions to their prospects. Phormion tools allow sales organizations to easily and clearly show their prospects how they can save money, time, and/or increase revenue using their products and services. We pride ourselves in transforming financial analyses into coherent, concise, value propositions and sales stories, and delivering the finished tools sales organizations need to communicate them. Phormion's clients include Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, HP, Network Associates, Intermec and Informix. For more information, please contact us at (908) 876-8700 or visit us on the web at www.phormion.com.